#EggGang beats Kylie Jenner’s most liked picture on Instagram

[UPDATED] 2019, what a great year to be alive! We started off the year by a viral post, in which a picture of an egg become the most liked picture on Instagram with 38 million likes and still increasing rapidly as we are writing this article.

Then comes a picture of a single egg, which was uploaded by a user @world_record_egg on 5th of January 2019 with a goal of beating Kylie’s most liked picture, they captioned “Let’s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this 🙌”

And they achieved the goal in less than 10 days, with double amount of likes from Kylie’s post by 15th of January. The owner of the account, identified as someone from London said to The Washington Post that the idea came up when reading the top 20 Instagram post on 2018, and they saw it as a challenge to beat it. And they did!

Yesterday, Kylie responded about her broken record by posting a short video on her Snapchat of her cracking an egg on the pavement, with a caption “Take that little egg”.

But this is not the end for the #EggGang, the account @world_record_egg even got verified on Instagram and they are making the Official Egg Gang Merchandise. They were selling “I Liked the Egg” t-shirts for £15.00, available in black and white. The merchandise will only be available for 24 hours, so if you liked the egg, you might want to grab it fast!